• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      Every single billionaire got there by exploiting and taking money from the people below him, who did most of the actual work. Nobody can earn a billion dollars, you can only do it by stealing. Buffet and Gates are the worst cause they try so hard to play the good guy billionaire image

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        I assume your downvotes are from billionaires. If not, that’s just sad. If you’re defending billionaires and aren’t one yourself, I regret to inform you that you’re a mark.

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        If that actually happens then he’ll no longer be a billionaire and that will be great. Until then he deserves the guillotine. Say it with me, there is zero reason for anyone to have a billion dollars and if they do the only way they have a billion dollars is by hurting other people. Every penny over a quarter billion (and that’s generous), could have been given back to the labor that created it or directly to the supposed charities that he’s giving to now. If you trust a single word a billionaire says then you’re a fool.

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        Hasn’t done it yet and even if he does it will be to a charity he and his family will have control of. They’ll still control the money and have the power that comes with.

        Same with the Patagonia guy and his family. It’s all bullshit to make liberals gush over them.

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    Average net worth for 35-44 year olds $135 thousand his net worth $119.2 billion. $5 equivalent for him is ~$4,414,814.81

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    Then they dare to go buy some fucking avocado toast and a mokke lattchiato or whatever the hell, on their fucking bikes with THEIR FUCKING HELMET ON!

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      Don’t buy avacado toast, make it.

      Shits cheap af

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      Dude literally just find more dead squirrels for avocado toast money, it’s that simple

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        No, you don’t understand the problem with avocado toast. You see, bread is a great source of carbs, and combined with the rind of the avocado, the scraps are a super food that leaves squirrels full of energy and with a thick coat that makes them neigh immortal

        When’s the last time you saw a dead squirrel ripe for the picking? It was free money

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    As someone that’s shot a few squirrels for tying flies with, I’d just buy the damn tails. Squirrels are filthy little beasts and have a pile of parasites that crawl off them when they’re dead.

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        They can be destructive fuckers. And, little known fact, red squirrels are the largest predator of juvenile rabbits.

        Tasty, tasty rabbits.

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          A squirrel tore up one of our lawn chair cushions to make its nest. Little piece of shit. Then bits of lawn chair stuffing blew all over the neighborhood that winter.

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            I was wondering why I wasn’t getting telemetry from my watering bowls and started tracking down the issue. I had leaned a pole with a LoRa antenna up against a tree, and one of the little bastards chewed the line through in about a dozen spots. If they get in the soffet of a house they’ll tear all the insulation out, then store thousands of spruce cones in there, making a lovely fire hazard.

            Hate them almost as much as mice.